In recent weeks, cool weather and scattered showers have slowed harvest progress throughout much of the Northern Plains. Based in Park River, North Dakota, Midwest Consulting owner and agronomist Dave Svobodny says soybean harvest is lagging. “Moisture content has been high enough to make it difficult to bin anything. However, the first hard freeze helped dry-up soybean vines.” With snow coverage in northern North Dakota and Minnesota, Svobodny says sunflower harvest is taking priority. Stalk integrity is also a concern in the corn crop. “Farmers will be pushing hard to harvest some of the early, drought-stressed corn.”
